a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
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lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hyponym
acid dye
alizarin yellow
anil, indigo, indigotin
aniline dye
azo dye
basic dye, basic color, basic colour
bluing, blueing, blue
bromophenol blue, bromphenol blue, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein
bromothymol blue, bromthymol blue
cochineal
cyanine dye
direct dye, substantive dye
fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein
fluorochrome
hair dye, hair coloring, tint
Kendal green, Kendal
lac dye
lead acetate, sugar of lead
orchil, archil, cudbear
quercitron
radiopaque dye
safranine, safranin, saffranine
Tyrian purple
vat dye, vat color
woad
part meronym
hypernym